I installed UEFI Ubuntu 10.10. Its grub2 version is 1.98. I want to upgrade it to 1.99.I try to use 'grub-install' and 'grub-setup' commands but I faild to upgrade the grub2.
And, when I add my ram to 4G, the system hangs and displays 'Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknow-block(1,0)'
I am trying to dual-boot windows xp and ubuntu 8.04LTS from two separate hard drives, on a compaq d510 evo SFF. With research, the best way to do that seemed to be to upgrade to Grub 2 and all would be well...not so much. I installed each OS with the other hard drive removed, fyi. I believe that this tells me that I SHOULD be able to boot off either drive, if I could get Grub 2 to recognize...
Code:
steve@Stewie:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb788b788 .....
Code:
steve@Stewie:~$ sudo update-grub
Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-27-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-27-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-26-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-26-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
done
I have also tried adding the proper code to the 40 custom file, and while I could at least get it to acknowledge my changes, I couldn't seem to find the magic code to get it right....
The other thing I tried was adding GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
to /etc/default/grub
and last but not least, here is my results.txt from the boot info script. I also tried uninstalling/reinstalling grub 2, perhaps I created issues there?
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary:
=> No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb
[URL](where loading into Windows corrupts the MBR). None of the solutions in the bug thread work for me, however--I'm on a Dell system (so it's not HP tools) and I'm not running PC Angel or any similar service (I checked). I assume it is related to the Dell recovery partition, though my old laptop from Dell didn't have this problem even though it also had a recovery partition.
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_root-root
37735960 15719388 20099644 44% /
none 1023876 316 1023560 1% /dev
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yestoday,after I upgrade,unable to boot windows xp. if I use grub ,windows xp can boot up.but now I want to use grub2, boot info script's results.txt is at below.
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
Boot Info Summary: => Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #6 for /boot/grub.
sda1:
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Fat16
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
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Code:
cat << EOF
menuentry "Windows Operating Systems (XP & Seven)" {
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I am newbie in Linux and Ubuntu. Need qualified help I've installed Ubuntu on my first drive. And I have Windows 7 on second drive. At the begining the problem was that GRUB2 didn't see Win7 loader. I red GRUB2 manual and find solution which says to add some text to the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom. So I did this and here is my 40_custom content:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
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i initilally installed ubuntu 9.10 then installed windows 7 ,then i recovered grub2 using livecd as told in the post [URL] i did "sudo update-grub" and got windows 7 menu entry but when i select that entry windows 7 does not load but the grub2 is reloaded again.
i cant boot to windows 7.
Windows 7 have 100 mb partition "System Reserved" the grub2 points to that partition but still windows 7 not loaded.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3c3a81f5
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How SHOULD I set up the boot loader?
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C - win xp D - win7 E- data F - data
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Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (recover mode)
memory test (memtest86+)
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I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 (no fresh install, an upgrade). During the upgrade, the installer asked me for the harddisks and partitions to include. I gave him the following ones:
Harddisk 1
1. Windows XP
2. Windows 2000
Harddisk 2
3. Ubuntu 10.04
After the installation was complete, I could only start Ubuntu. Both Windows versions just showed a flashing cursor at the left upper top screen. No HDD activity! How can I get WinXP and Win2000 selectable within grub2?
I have been running a dual boot XP and Ubuntu 8.04 on two separate hard drives for a while now without any problems. I used the method posted http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=dualboot. I will be upgrading to 10.4 soon (probably after the re-spin in July) and was wondering if I will have problems after upgrading dual booting.
I do not know if while upgrading Grub remains or if Grub2 tries to overwrite. I have read that Grub2 will try to install onto all partitions and hard drives in a fresh install but do not know about upgrading. If it does try I think I need to put it in hda,1 which is the primary drive where Ubuntu is located.
This is not something I have been able to find the answer to with google. I also have Kubuntu on the system which I can change with session manager and am not sure what will happen to that once I upgrade Ubuntu.